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Ovid, Michael Fontaine (trans.)
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love
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Ovid
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The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville’s translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid’s unique and elusive vision of reality.
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Ovid’s witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and…
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Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including…
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Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke…
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A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of…
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Auguste Ovid
Mostly self-educated, Rodin was a passionate re-reader of his favourite books, and Ovid’s Love Elegies occupied a special place in his imagination. These woodcut illustrations were taken from the astonishingly…
In The Metamorphoses , Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme…
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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary…
Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation.
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Publius Ovidius Naso
The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a striking translation. In this tour de force, all the…
Tommaso Spinelli
Moving beyond Virgil-centric readings of Statius' poetry, this book offers an innovative, intermedial, and Ovidian reading of the Thebaid, suggesting that the poem reworks both Virgil and Ovid's politically loaded…
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Pierre Bersuire
Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It contains descriptions of…
John C. Thibault
Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on the Black Sea. The action presumably…
Ted Hughes,Ovid
The late Poet Laureate presents recreations of 24 passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses , including the stories of Phaeton, Actaon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.
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This volume presents a new translation into English and the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3. Aimed at both students and scholars, the translation clarifies…
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Simona Martorana
"Incorporates contemporary feminist theories and provides interdisciplinary perspectives on motherhood within Ovidian works and classical literature more broadly and questions the widely acknowledged dialectic between the (male) voice of the…
Anna Everett Beek
The result is a lively tour of the Roman year-sometimes thoughtful, sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant or even farcical-that interweaves human customs into the natural world, and gives occasional glimpses of…
Richard Blevins
INSTRUCTIONS: READ FIRSTFOR YOUR NEW MOSAIC, YOU WILL NEED FOUR (IV) PAINTINGS (NOT INCLUDED) FOR CUTTING UP. E.G. A PORTRAIT OF A CHILD; A SCENE FROM OVID; CHARIOT RACE ACTION…
Victoria Rimell
A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by…
Julian Wagner
The book offers an in-depth narratological analysis of the 'Book of Orpheus' (10.1-11.84). The commentary puts special emphasis on the polyphony of the various narrative levels that results from the…
Celia Campbell
A bold new interpretive approach to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Campbell argues that the poem's first pentad draws a programmatic strain of influence from hymns to the gods, in particular conversation-and competition-with…
Raymond David Marks
In his Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus challenges the masculine, heroic ethos of Roman epic by turning Medea, Jason's love interest in the story, into a heroic figure and Jason himself into…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
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The compilers, J.C and M.J. Thornton, have used the translations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which they believe render more faithfully than those of any other age the even…
The Amores is a collection of love poems by the Roman poet Ovid. The poems explore various aspects of love, including seduction, jealousy, and betrayal. In the book, the narrator…
Ovid: Metamorphosen Entstanden um 2-8 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der UEbersetzung von Reinhart Suchier. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage sind…
Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem…
Ovid: Metamorphosen Entstanden um 2-8 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der UEbersetzung von Reinhart Suchier. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016, 2. Auflage…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Heroides XIV - Edited by Arthur Palmer is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
